For me it was the excrutiating pain I had a sore back for most of my third trimester as Ella was big and i'm kinda small. So the start of labour went unnoticed until the were 3mins apart.

Lots of people by looking at me that i was ready to pop (at 27 weeeks!)

The anticipation is grueling - it took so much out of me, so i put it out of my mind. Take the phone off the hook and dont listen to ILs asking "are you in labour yet?". You'll know when it starts because you cant talk... haha.

Good luck. Not long now.

Ann